The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-13
FREAKS OF FAT WOMEN.
They Like Candy and Pop, and Pre-
fer Thin Men for Husbands.

Fat women, like poets. are born, not
made" soliloquized William Wheeler.
OF course, adipOse tissue ia augmented
by the character OF the food ca en-. but
the obeseness is in re system Just the
same, even if the victim diets ON pickles
and vinegar.
There is something funny about
rat woman. In the first place, she is the
only one of her generation in family
with that affection, and In the second
she IS uniformly gOod-natured and
KIND. haVe never yet seen one in the
! business who was bad tempered. Some
times persuade myself that flesh is the
groundwork of affability. The heshiest
women IN America to-day is the kindest
hearted being in the world. These
curlosities are the best standard attrac-
zion In museums and circuses. They
earn earn more money, and are more
popular with visitors. Besides this,
they are the patron spirits of the curl
EoSlty halls and look after the welfare
and comfort of those about them.
Another funny thing about these women
is their love for dwarfs. They take TO
them like hy does to sugar.
They would all be good people to have,
IN this State about this time for their
incompetence excuses amount simply
to sarsaparilla pop drinks. Namiah, q
German, whose home was originally in
Kansas City, drinks beer. She is the
only fat woman on exhibition to-day
who tastes ardent spirits of any sort.
There is reason for ali this. Flesh and
alcohol are antagonistic. A Aeshy
person is possessed of more blood. 1t
is OF warmer temperature and LIQUOR
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many fat drunkardS you ever saw. If
person is given to flesh he will not
make liquor his companion to the
extent OF the gutter and police station.
But these big people have an abnormal
appetite for liquid nourishment. Thew
drink sarsaparilla pop by the bottle.
and Namiah disposes of beer by cases.
Another characteristic of fieshy
women is their preference for men of
slender build. Hannah Bastersbv, the
best known of fat women married, a
tall, emaciated fellow who weighed "a
pounds at the time the knot was tied.
inns was some years ago, and eversince.
then the husband has been growing in.
weight. He now weighs 158 pounds.
Mrs. Battersby's husband was known as
skeleton at the time of his marriage,
and as he and his wife were with Bar
mum at that time, good deal of capital
was made of the matter. People got the,
idea that fat women always married
skeletons. This is not the case. and so.
far as l know Mrs. Battersby is the onlv
lady who ever did so. But her contem-
poIaries, nevertheless, have a,Weakness
for men of slight physique. Winnie
Johnson, the highest salaried fat woman
on the stage, has for life partner a
little man whom she welded tWentve
years ago. They have four children at
the time of Mrs. Johnson g marriage she
weighed 500 pounds. Now she tips the
beam at 700 pounds.
America produces more professional
fat ladies than all other countries COM
blned. Germany ranks second, In
Africa there are a great many women
who might earn good salaries in
museums, but it wouldn't pay to import
then. The women of the European
continent are more inclined to flesh, as
a class, than those upon this. side of the.
Atlantic, but they seldom develop such
an amount OF superhuous tissue.
Hannah Battersby is the most corpu-
lent woman in America. She is A years
old and weighs 728 pounds. Mrs. Bat
tersby commands salary of 500 per
week, and continues to increase
in weight. Two weeks ago, she
became blind, the flesh about
her eyes shutting out the light
of the outside world A popularity of
Mrs. Battersby is her ability to climb
stairs. Although unable to walk dozen.
feet without support, she can climb any
stairway by simply grasping the bannis-
ter rail. Mrs. Battersby is well educated.
She has been fifteen years before the,
public.
Her greatest rival is Mrs. Johnson, a.
q n Tn
Is getting $3.50 at a Chicago museum.
This is the heaviest salary paid any
woman in this lima of curios. Mrs.
Johnson is AZ years old. At Is her
weight was 259 pounds, Ada Briggs 10
years old, 485 pounds, is five feet four
inches in height. She has a magni6-
cent figure and is ranked the handsom-
est fat woman in the procession.
There are two instances where two
children in one family are given TO
obesity. The Hill children,
both girls, and twins, are 16 years old
and weigh 1913 and 228 pounds. Peter
and Nellie BrahiR are respectively %
and II years old, and their combined
weight is 800 pounds. Every woman
on exhibition has weakness for confec-
tIonery and cake. Hannah Battersby
can eat a pound of CONNECTIONS a day
without hlnehlng. She and Mrs. John
son are transported from town to toFn
in baggage cars. Fifty years IS the
limit of life with people of this class"
Are fat men good curiositle5 ?"
mo, fat men have AL played out.
People do not care to see a great, drop
sical, seething man, sitting calmly on
stage all day long, doing nothing bat
and not doing that well. The
reason these curiosities continue to gam
flesh is because they take no exercise.
They all die of heart disease or choke to
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